Hans L. Trefousse

Hans L. Trefousse
BornDecember 19, 1921
Germany
DiedJanuary 8, 2010(2010-01-08) (aged 88)
United States
Alma materCity College New York (B.A., 1942);
Columbia University (M.A., 1947)(PhD. 1950)
Occupation(s)Author, historian, professor
SpouseRashelle Friedlander

Hans Louis Trefousse (December 18, 1921, Frankfurt/Main, Germany – January 8, 2010, Staten Island, New York was a German-born American author and historian of the Reconstruction Era and World War II.[1] He was a long-time professor (and professor emeritus) at Brooklyn College from 1950 to 1998.[2] He also taught as a distinguished professor of history at Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[3]

  1. ^ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, pages 25, 35‒36, 445–446 (including a short biography and bibliography).
  2. ^ Fox, Margalit (February 4, 2010). "Hans L. Trefousse, Historian and Author, Dies at 88". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Paul A. Thomsen; Joshua Spivak (February 1, 2010). "Hans Trefousse: A Scholar and a Gentleman". History News Network.